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A rediscovered title by the academic and novelist, this is an utterly thrilling novel about a kidnapped baby, a religious cult and a man who claims to be God...

A new novel that questions just how well we know those that we love. "Telling Time" follows the family of Thomas Westerly, who has requested that his children go through his papers to destroy anything embarrassing before he passes - but what they find shocks them all.

Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book, she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family...

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Wer dieses Buch gelesen hat, wird nie wieder so unbefangen wie früher nachts allein über einsame Landstraßen fahren können Eines Tages bekommt Susan Morrow Post von ihrem Exmann Edward, von dem sie seit zwanzig Jahren nichts mehr gehört hat. Als sie Edward verließ, wollte er Schriftsteller werden, und jetzt hat er ihr das Manuskript seines ersten Romans geschickt und bittet sie um ihre Meinung. Widerstrebend beginnt Susan zu lesen. Es ist die ...

TONY AND SUSAN is a lost masterpiece of American fiction: a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel of reading and writing, fear and regret, blood and revenge... 'Absorbing, terrifying, beautiful and appalling. I loved it... Unforgettable.' Ruth Rendell.

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Examines the political and economic changes of recent decades in the Mississippi Delta region.

Een gelukkig getrouwde vrouw, Susan, ontvangt per post een vreemd verzoek: haar ex-echtgenoot, van wie ze ruim twintig jaar niets meer heeft gehoord, smeekt haar het manuscript te lezen van zijn nog ongepubliceerde roman. Ze stemt toe, en kan onmogelijk voorzien welke ingrijpende gevolgen deze beslissing zal hebben voor haar verdere leven. De fascinerende 'roman-in-de-roman' is een bloedstollende, meesterlijk geschreven thriller binnen in een ...

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Paperback edition of the rediscovered classic novel from the late Wright, which was first published in 1993. Blending psychological crime with literary fiction, its publication in hardback in 2010 caused an international sensation, with rights auctions resulting in sales to 15 territories. 'Marvellously written, the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful.' Saul Bellow

Confessa, lettore. Se un conoscente ti recapita un manoscritto ingiungendoti di leggerlo entro qualche giorno, quando vorrà incontrarti per un responso, cosa provi? Nervosismo? Fastidio? Imbarazzo? Bene, più o meno quello che prova Susan, anche perché il mittente non è una persona qualsiasi, ma il suo ex marito, e il romanzo che le ha spedito è quello che ha fantasticato di scrivere, senza riuscirci, per tutta la durata del loro matrimonio. Qu...

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Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.

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Excerpt from War's Folly and FutilityWhen the taxing power is analyzed, when its purpose and its effect upon those in whose hands the power rests is noted, the slowness with which agriculture has reached even the crude development of today is explained. Tilling the soil is laborious and results uncertain, while farming farmers is easy and results certain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic boo...

Austin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.

This book not only addresses the social and economic disparities in one of America's poorest regions, but also explains why traditional methods of overcoming these disparities are not necessarily tied to redistributing money. On the contrary, the author points out vividly that the system will only begin to change when non-elites are empowered and hundreds of years of oppression and institutional racism are removed through education and reorder...